THE OLD SCHOOL PRESS

The manual of the dwelling

I had been reading Alain de Botton's book on architecture and was led on to read Le Corbusier's Towards a new architecture, in which I found the following (well known) text. At the time we were planning the building of a new house which made it a must for a poster.

18pt Hunt Roman text with 42pt Granby Ultra Bold, printed on a quarter-sheet of hand-made paper from Cartiera Amatruda, Amalfi. 51*37cm. £20.